Last month I finished an article describing the handful of Seattle’s drive-in markets. They may have been Seattle’s first buildings designed to engage automobiles —…
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Published February 13, 2016
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Published February 13, 2016
Blueprints of Broadway Market
Almost a year ago I wrote a long history of Broadway Market in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, which ran in Capitol Hill Seattle blog. Because of…
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Published February 9, 2016
50s Futurism Forgotten – The Burien Tradewell Story
The core of this article originally appeared in the print edition of Seattle’s Westside Weekly, but has not appeared online until now. However, this is…
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Published January 15, 2016
Once Upon a Time in the Plan of Seattle
Just before Christmas I dropped a limited edition paper on the history of the 1911 Plan of Seattle. It was limited to a single copy,…
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Published January 9, 2016
Seattle’s Drive-In Markets
Only one of Seattle’s drive-in markets is extant, the current Builders’ Hardware & Supply in Interbay. At its core, this article is an exploration of the historical…
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Published January 3, 2016
Blueprints of Seattle’s Street Clocks
To install clocks in the Seattle street right-of-way after 1901, the Seattle Board of Public Works required blueprint plans or photographs to be submitted. So far,…
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Published October 23, 2015
Renaming the streets of South and West Seattle
I transcribed three major street renaming events in early 1900s Seattle: West Seattle; Beacon Hill, Columbia City, and the Rainier Valley; and Georgetown. As each…
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Published June 20, 2015
Clock DB – Where Seattle’s Street Clocks Were
A Database of Seattle Clocks by Time, Owner and Location Six years in the making, I’m happy to publicly unveil my Seattle street clock database.…
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Published May 20, 2015
Time Travel to Pike’s Forest of Street Clocks
Seattle still has a bunch of street clocks. (Those clocks on poles in the sidewalk.) Almost a dozen, which is more than just about any…
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Published April 24, 2015
Festival Queen to Asylum Inmate, Virgilia Bogue Baron
“Miss Bogue is about five feet, ten inches in height, splendidly proportioned, with an exceedingly graceful carriage; is of the brunette type with large, dark…
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